Don's nephew is 5 years less than triple Don's age. The sum of Don's age and his nephew's age is 50. Write an equation to represent this relationship.

a negative exponent is translated as follows:

so, we have

"if it is my birthday, then it is snowing"

x is the total time in minutes for the free response

you are given number of questions as 15 - m and time per item as 8 minutes

to find x multiply the two givens together:

x = 8 * (15-m) = 8(15-m)

#12 the answer is the third option